Zero-downtime logistics

Maintenance & MRO

In industrial maintenance, every minute of downtime is costly: a critical asset being down can exceed €10,000 in lost production per hour. To keep MTTR under control, the spare-parts warehouse must deliver the right part to the technician within extremely short lead times while limiting capital tied up in inventory.

In addition, component obsolescence, multi-site warehouse dispersion and 24/7 on-call constraints add further complexity. Generic systems lack granularity: Fox4Work^TM combines e-Kanban, managed consignment and RFID traceability to ensure availability, responsiveness and financial control.

Your challenges

Key challenges in maintenance logistics

Challenge #1

Critical parts availability

The slightest shortage of a bearing or line drive can bring operations to a halt. MRO warehouses must maintain a 99% service level without inflating safety stock.

Challenge #2

Obsolescence & slow movers

Specialized fasteners, legacy electronic boards: 15 to 30% of SKUs remain unused for over a year. Identifying and rationalizing these slow movers avoids thousands of euros in tied-up capital.

Challenge #3

24/7 emergencies

Technicians intervene at night, on weekends or on remote on-call duty. The store must deliver the part within 30 minutes, with proof of issue and full traceability.

Challenge #4

Multi-site cycle counting

Factories, regional depots, service vehicles: inventory must remain synchronized to avoid leftovers and enable pooling of strategic stocks.

Excessive MTTR, idle capital and delayed interventions: without a dedicated MRO WMS, these hidden costs erode productivity and asset availability.

Our industry solution “Maintenance”

Parts availability & reduced MTTR

Fox4Work^TM manages e-Kanban, vendor-managed consignment stock, RFID traceability and MTTR KPIs. Each scan feeds a real-time cockpit (stockout risks, slow movers, service level) to ensure responsive, optimized spare-parts logistics.

Consignment stock & e-Kanban replenishment

Empty bins are scanned; a supplier order is generated automatically and the stock remains supplier-owned until consumption. Result: –30% tied-up capital and a critical component availability rate maintained above 99%.

Ready-to-use kitting

Fox4Work^TM automatically assembles intervention kits (parts + tools) as soon as a CMMS work order is created. Technician preparation time drops by 25% and the “first-time-fix” rate increases by 12 points.

Fox4Work: Connected Shopping

Fox4Work™ vending guarantees physical product availability through control cameras and inventory traceability. It optimizes replenishment and reduces intervention time, turning each dispensing point into a highly efficient autonomous area.

MTTR & obsolescence cockpit

The dashboard tracks MTTR, service level and dead stock value; the algorithm suggests inter-site transfers or reconditioning. Customers report a 20% reduction in obsolete stock and an 18% decrease in average MTTR over six months.

Fox4work Work Orders: planned or corrective

Fox4work^TM manages scheduled work orders (preventive maintenance, replenishment) to ensure constant product availability. It also includes corrective work orders (troubleshooting, incidents), triggered by automatic alerts from cameras or sensors, ensuring rapid intervention. This minimizes stockouts and optimizes “vending” performance.

With Fox4Work^TM, spare parts are available when technicians need them: fewer unplanned downtimes, less capital tied up and more agile maintenance.

Our clients

Maintenance sector

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The 4 key challenges a WMS must address

Whether it is an e-commerce hub or an industrial platform, four challenges now dominate logistical performance: maintaining a reliable inventory to avoid stockouts and overstocking, accelerating order picking—which absorbs up to 70% of warehouse labor—smoothing out receiving and shipping to reduce truck dwell time (frequently exceeding two hours), and guaranteeing exhaustive traceability capable of reaching 99% accuracy through the barcode/RFID pairing.

A WMS like Fox4Work tackles these four areas head-on: real-time visibility for every SKU, dynamic slotting and batch picking to eliminate unnecessary travel, dock scheduling and directed put-away to relieve docks, and time-stamped audit logs with live KPIs to move from annual inventories to continuous control.

Discover how Fox4Work addresses each of these challenges—and why mastering them determines a warehouse’s profitability.

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